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NOVELS & NOVELLAS

The Crazy Garden (September 2007, Press 53)

A bewildering new world of intrigue, ambition, betrayal, and disappointment opens for sixteen-year-old Sophy when a family vacation leads to a dangerous entanglement with her sister's fiancé.

Read an excerpt.

Order a copy from Press 53 (or, if you prefer, from Amazon).

 

Rook

It's a bitter winter for Jeffrey Rook, a food critic in the habit of accepting bribes from Chicago chefs. When his marriage crumbles, an unexpected relative turns up, and the bribery becomes public, Jeffrey must confront what he has kept at bay all his life—his past, and himself.

Read an excerpt.

Second runner-up for the 2003 William Faulkner Creative Writing Awards, Novel category (judged by Julia Glass).

Runner-up for the 2002 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.

An excerpt appeared in the February 2003 issue of The Tap.

 

 

SHORT STORIES

"S"

"S" is featured in the anthology Life Sentences, edited by Anthony M. Pinn and Gregory M. T. Colleton, published in October 2007 by Wipf & Stock.

 

"The Shape of Grief"

Adapted into a screenplay by Philip Kobylanski. Philip's screenplay was runner-up in the University of North Carolina's inaugural RiverRun Story to Screenplay competition. His script is excerpted alongside my story in the contest's anthology, now available from Amazon.